The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1887-10-28
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were destroyed by prairie fires In the neighbel
hood Of Tower City last week.
| At Grand Forks Tuesday ]. ]. HIPS ii
steamer ''Selkirk," built in 1870, struck III
pier OF the new Northern Pacific bridge an
sunk in ten minutes.
At the Bismarck land Office i've potatoes ar
on exhibition, the combined weight Of whicl
exceeds IS pounds. One Of them weighs TON
and quarter pounds.
The Lisbon fair association has just figured
out that 1t is $1,000 short The loss was caused
by heavy rains, which prevented a IT,
| tendance on the last day.
Fargo Republican: DR.. e. o
ceiVed, this morning, the pronld
OF surveys on the proposed Mimi.
railroad that will run northwest a.
Dakota Is in better position
money panic than any other stat
in the Unino. Her crops have bee
and the prices of her real estates
hard pan.
Tuesday morning at o'clock
engine, belonging to John Glass, a
ten miles southeast Of Glendale,
killing two men outright and woundin.
one Of whom has since died.
The Fargo land Office shut down on the in.
demnity land squatters at noon last Saturday.
to catch up, and quiet day was had. Filings
were continued Monday, but many left for
home and will abandon the effort, losing faitl,
In it.
Wheatland Eagle: The Green Mountain
Stock company unloaded three car loads Of fine
horses and ponies las Saturday, and on Mondsy
they were taken to Broadawn, the company,s
stock ranch near Hope.
Gov. Church offers to donate $50 to some
charitable institution il the Pioneer Press can
prove that special telegram recently pub
lished, announcing that charges might be pre-
ferred against him, was not manufactured in
tho Pioneer Press office.
The Sawyer elevator at Mapleton burned
Saturday afternoon with $4,000 bushels of
wheat. Its capacity was 100, 900 bushels. The
f!re caught in the upper stories from an un-
known source. Insurance is held at the gen.
eral office; amount unknown.
Cargill Bros.' elevator at Park River was de.
stroyed by fire Sunday. It contained about
40,O0O bushels of wheat, most of which was
saved by opening tho spouts and allowing II
to run out No other buildings were burned
The estimated loss is SIS, 900; fully insured.
Fargo Republican: DR.. Squrer, this morn.
Ing, received letter from Col. Britton, saying
that his corps Of surveyors have had pretty
hard time since the cold weather.set in. They
are now at or near Ottawa, on the west side Of
the Sheyenne river, about fifteen miles north
east of Cooperstown. N
The Minneapolis Evening Journal 8:
1t looks now as T many OF the farmers
Missouri slope Mf,l -raxt season, conver.
wheat fields Into potato patches. 4
land which yielded Is bushels of
season would have produced 200 bushels O.
tatoes. The market price Is nearly the &
for both.
Register Battelle: The rush still continu
for railroad filings. Weclose the Office at noon
now to take care Of mail, proofs and regular
work. We have put on upwards Of 600 rail-
road filings already. We turn away from
thirty to forty every day, and IN tho morning
the crowd is as big as 1t was tho day befor(
when we started in. never saw anything
like it before. e
Fargo Argus: At half past i've Monday (
terno0n h. G. Carpenter died at theY' iyi.s..
S. Dalrymple near Casselton, over y4kh lie
had haen tho foromon Ror n u~., .,A = h.fs
Mr.. Dalrymple did everything possible to re-
lieve his sufferings, and his instructions were
that no pains or money should be spared at the
funeral, which was one of tho largest ever at
tended in Casseiton. ~
Judge Spencer, before adjourg..,
Brooking', sentenced the follow by
the penitentiary: Harry Lyons,
three years; George LiddingtoB sS;sse .s5,ens -
years; Gotleib, running of s1d aellina 49,. -.
gagged property, six monthb: Andraw Iarsa,, 80
malicious mischief, fine Sf $50. Gao u passa,
and Gus Frank, for se2Ag liquor without It'll Ii
cense, each 800 apd cost. ' - :
Another one Of Chose mysterious AM.
surveying parties so numerous m ~ 49,,
late. is reported running line from n...s,..
on tne Nor'hep Pacific to Gardner, on t,s
Manitoba, poiFs about equally distant from, \,
Fargo one tess and the other north. Tha
most pla'Mole theory is that 1t Is in thu intay.
est Of te Northern Pacific and ia to h. con.,r ,.,
ued fu'ner east to the line north, reaching ina
some the finest wheat regions in Tho 80 -
river yllW. 80. = 1Ia sseA
Hon. Peter Dow, of Orchard sse,
was accidentally shot and killed last
the Keystone farm near Wahpeton while Sho,
ing geese. He aud two companions were I'M.
wagon, and In the excitement Of getting rss
to shoot rifle was accidentally discharp
the bullet taking effect in Mr.. Dow,s b.
Mr.. Dow was member Of the Michigan st
senate, where he has served four ysars, 5
was sixty-seven years Of age. The rery